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Shanghai Custom House, 2008, Courtesy of Avery Goldstein

Highway Rest Stop, North of Dalian June 2007, Courtesy of Avery Goldstein

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Suzhou Huqiu Park, 2012, Courtesy of Yuanyuan Zeng

Suzhou Railway Station, 2012, Courtesy of Yuanyuan Zeng

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Neysun A. Mahboubi is a Research Fellow of the University of Connecticut School of Law, where he has taught courses on administrative law and comparative law, and a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Contemporary China at the University of Pennsylvania.

Professor Avery Goldstein is the director of Center for the Study of Contemporary China. He is the David M. Knott Professor of Global Politics and International Relations in the Political Science Department at the University of Pennsylvania.

Professor Jacques deLisle is the deputy director of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China. He is the Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania.

Professor Xinyin Chen is Professor of Psychology at the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania.He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) and the Association for Psychological Science (APS) and the President-Elect of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development (ISSBD).

Dr. Amy Gadsden is Associate Dean and Executive Director for International Programs at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She is a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) and an Advisory Council member of the Women’s Democracy Network (WDN).

Dr. Emily Hannum is Associate Professor of Sociology and Education, as well as Chair of the Graduate Group in Sociology at Penn.

Marshall W. Meyer is the Tsai Wan-Tsai Professor in the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he is also Professor of Management, Professor of Sociology, and Associate Member of the Center for East Asian Studies.

Monroe Price is the director of the Center for Global Communication Studies at the Annenberg School. He is also the Joseph and Sadie Danciger Professor of Law and Director of the Howard M. Squadron Program in Law, Media and Society at the Cardozo School of Law.

Yuhua Wang is Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Pennsylvania. His research and teaching focus on political economy of development, East Asian political economy, authoritarian politics, Chinese domestic politics, and American political institutions.

Guobin Yang is an Associate Professor of Communication and Sociology in the Annenberg School for Communication and Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania.

Xia Liping is Dean and Professor of School of Political Science & International Relations at Tongji University in Shanghai. He is Vice President of Shanghai Institute for International Strategic Studies (SIISS), Vice Chairman of Shanghai Association of International Studies, and Vice President of Shanghai Center for RimPac Strategic and International Studies (CPSIS).

Professor Wang Xixin is a Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law of Peking University Law School, and the Deputy Director of Constitutional and Administrative Law Research Center of Peking University.

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John Yasuda joins CSCC to be the 2013-2014 postdoctoral fellow. John Yasuda received his PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. His broader research interests include regulatory reform in developing countries, governance in multilevel settings, and informal institutions in governance. His dissertation, The Scale Problem: Food Safety Coherence Deficits in China, explores how China’s scale complicates the implementation of a national food safety regime. Specifically, he shows how actors in a fragmented, multilevel governance system have failed to develop a comprehensive food safety plan, and instead have resorted to small-scale, gradualist policies that have only exacerbated China’s food safety problems. John’s fieldwork spanned over 18 months in 9 counties across China and was supported by a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship and the NSEP Boren Fellowship. At Berkeley, John received both departmental and university-wide commendations for excellence in teaching. John received an M.Phil in Comparative Politics at the University of Oxford in 2007 and an A.B. in Government from Harvard College in 2005. Welcome, John!

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China's New Leadership: People and Priorities

by Francis Miller on March 25, 2013

Alice Miller sketched the events of China's most recent leadership transition by trying to answer a key question for the audience: what are the implications of China's most recent Party Congress? In November, the world saw the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in which seven of the nine members of the Politburo Standing Committee were retired in a closed-doors handover to new leadership. What can we expect from the new leadership?

China's Influence and Impact on the Future of Everybody's Internet

by Francis Miller on March 20, 2013

Rebecca MacKinnon's talk could not have been more timely. Recently, a report from the security-consulting firm Mandiant asserted that hackers in a PLA-owned structure on the outskirts of Shanghai were responsible for stealing information from hundreds of US companies.

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Judicial Review and Constitutionalism in China: A Discussion with Wang Zhenmin (Tsinghua University)

Wang Zhenmin, Dean and Professor of Law at Tsinghua University Law School

Friday, May 10, 2013

12-1:30pm

CSCC Conference Room, Fisher-Bennett Hall 345